The General Accounting Office has identified a need for better information on the effectiveness of post-fire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation methods used by the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior (DOI) agencies. Since reviews were published on treatment effectiveness earlier this decade, treatment choices have changed and increased monitoring has been done. Greater use of native species has added substantially to burned area emergency response (BAER) treatment costs, for example, but quantitative data on this treatment were scarce in earlier reviews; technical papers on this treatment are largely still in press but will be out soon. We propose to synthesize current information on the effectiveness of post-fire seeding for both soil stabilization and for prevention of the spread of invasive species. We will review published literature (peer-reviewed and 'gray') and agency monitoring reports, as well as compile and analyze quantitative data in agency files. Products of this review will include a web-accessible database of monitoring reports and published information, an annotated bibliography of peer-reviewed papers, a summary report published as a General Technical Report that will be available online, presentations to BAER team training sessions and workshops, and scientific journal papers. By combining results from studies done by Forest Service and DOI agency personnel with research studies published since the initial reviews, we will produce a comprehensive synthesis of seeding effectiveness knowledge that will complement a review of other hillslope treatments being proposed by another researcher. This information will help federal land managers make more cost-effective decisions on post-fire stabilization and rehabilitation treatments.